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CONFESSION explores the tragic destiny of God according to eminent British cosmologist Stephen Hawking, who places the beginning of time itself at the moment of the Big Bag. Before this cosmic event time came to a stop. This theoretical hypothesis leaves no possibility for a grand creator to have existed; running over the Judeo-Christian promise of heaven and afterlife.

Contemporary dance performance by Philippe Chéhère and david gil. Commissioned by Hiroshima City University, Faculty of International Studies. Performed in Hiroshima, Japan during the 70th anniversary of the A-bomb.

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On August 6th 1945, the first atomic bomb ever used on a civilian population was dropped over the city of Hiroshima in Japan. Following the blast, a radioactive black rain covered the city. OUT OF THE SHADOW is a contemporary dance performance based on the series of photographs captured by Thomas Damm for the book Black Rain: Internal Exposure published in 2012 by The Liaison Council Black Rain Hibakusha Group in 2012. Hibakusha is the Japanese word used to describe the survivors who were affected by the atomic bomb. They suffered from various diseases including cancers, caused by internal exposure. The performance is a metaphorical portrait of those A-bomb survivors who have not yet been officially recognized as Hibakusha. It is also dedicated to them.

Choreographic documentary directed by david gil. Screened by France Télévisions during the Telethon 2014, by the Cinema Le Grand Action in Paris during the Week of the Brain, during the 8th European Huntington’s disease Network Plenary meeting in Barcelona and during the Week of the Handicap at Micadances Paris.

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ELOGE DU MOUVEMENT traces the first ten years of a series of contemporary dance workshops and performances created by dancers and choreographers Philippe Chéhère and Julie Salgues. The workshops were designed for individuals affected by Huntington Disease, hereditary neurodegenerative illness once known as Saint Vitus’ Dance. The relationship to the body is this involuntary dance, which appears despite oneself, without any ability to control it. Today, after ten years of workshops, doctors at ICM (Institute of the Brain and Spinal Cord) in Paris have launched a protocol of neuroscientific research in order to measure the contribution of contemporary dance for those affected by the incurable disease.

Jane Doughtery is an American middle class Jane Doe dreaming of becoming next PLAYHOUSE icon while having problems to pay her mortgage. Evicted from both her dreams of celebrity and homeownership, she finds herself imprisoned in a time in American history where the fundamental right of truth has been reduced to a Lacanian illusion. Inspired by the real life of American performance artist Tara Shae aAnanda (Jane Doughtery), PLAYHOUSE stages the collapse of the American dream of homeownership using psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan’s definition of the word Foreclosure: psychotic event due to a loss of contact with reality.

Even if our generation can safely and affordably profit from a healthy sexual life without procreation thanks to democratized access to preventive contraception, it is estimated that more than one billion legal abortions have been practiced worldwide since the procedure was decriminalized. In Europe alone one abortion takes place every 27 seconds. Inspired by the testimony of Gianna Jessen, a real life abortion survivor, UNWANTED questions what the Universal Declaration of Human Rights defines as “everyone’s right to life”.

The Color of Self-Confidence is an experimental animated short art portraying self-confidence as the key element to ever changing universal beauty. Commissioned by LVMH – Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the world’s leading luxury group, the short film serves as creative direction brief to Where Beauty Beats, Sephora’s 2013 ad campaigned produced by BETC Paris. Inspired by Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, I imagine a series of black and white bubble-bath-girls admiring shadows projected by a burning Flame behind them. Suddenly, one of the girls is compelled to turn around and to look at the Flame source of light. Astonished, she discovers the colors of self-confidence and morphs into a Warholian silkscreen moving painting.

Creation of a luxury accessory collection for men and women. Participation on the architecture design of the store on 21 rue Cambon 75001 Paris.

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Fauré Le Page is a Parisian luxury house founded by master gunsmith Louis Pigny in 1717. Appointed by his majesty, FLP became the official supplier of luxurious weaponry to Louis XV. Napoleon, the Cha of Iran, Lola Montez or Sarah Bernhardt once held a Fauré Le Page in their hand. My mission consists in studying the archives of the ancient house in order to create a collection of weapons of seduction and to prepare the brand to strike the luxury accessory battlefield with a first store on 21 rue Cambon in the heart of Paris.

Performing paintings. Created during a live performance at Burst Art Fair Project during Art Basel Miami Beach.

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According to the department of media studies at Rutgets University (New Jersey), in 2001 the phenomenon of reality TV exploded in the United States when the American population watched over 250 billion hours of television that single year; exhibiting five dependency symptoms to television, two more than necessary to be categorized as a clinical substance abuse. Serving as color bars, COLOR THEORY is intended to recalibrate the chrominance and luminescence of the reality screened live by NTSC monitors during the most televised catastrophes in history taking place in a television hooked nation.

Play style short art film. Collaboration with Mary Jordan and Arnaud Bouchard

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Adapted from German fairy tale by the Grimm brothers in which a young brother and his little sister are threatened by a cannibalistic witch, Hansel and Gretel questions food distribution in the world today; where on one side of the planet governments are spending over 150 billion dollars every year to fight obesity and on the other 3.5 million people face starvation.

A man opens his eyes, he is covered by an unknown mold. “What am I doing here?” he thinks. “You are not here, here is not a pace,” says an anonymous voice. This is the starting point of an ancient tale from unknown origin telling the story of self-conquest. Living in a world he once thought he knew, this anonymous character breaks mold after mold from darkness to light. As he faces a mirror, he is enlightened by the discovery of his sleeping senses and suddenly encounters 7 billion others.

… a moment in … is an experimental collection counting with the faithful support of nine anonymous collaborators of the underground Belgian fashion group bvba 32, owner of Ann Demeulemeester and Haider Ackermann. I am invited to write and direct a photographic storyboard staging the spring summer 2010 collection of … a moment in … Inspired by magic realism, a backstage mirror reflected nine bvba 32 collaborators invading the creative process of contemporary fashion design.

Short art film. Collaboration with Arnaud Bouchard. Music by John Zorn Film Works III. Screed by Diane Pernet at the Pompidou Center.

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THE LAST SUPPER stages the poem of creation, one of the first human manuscripts dating from Babylon and narrating the creation of mankind when the god of light (Sarpanitou) sent the god of fatherhood (Mardok) to liberate the goddess of motherhood (Istar) from the hell with no return (Hades). “You are going to face Istar. You will make love to her and once fertilized, she will devour you and then she shall create a child to your image.”

Live performance. During Art Basel Miami Beach, in the Wynwood Art District.

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With a stock of approximately 9 million handguns, machine guns or military assault rifles designed for warfare made legally available each year in the streets of the United States, PORTRAIT OF MY TIME creates a metaphor between the second amendment to the constitution of the United States and what André Breton, founder of surrealism, defined in his Manifesto as The Simplest Surrealist Act, “consisting in going into a street with revolvers in your fist and shooting blindly into the crowd”.

The International Festival of Hyères in France is a platform designed to promote young creative talent. It takes place every year in the landmark cubist villa built in the 1920’s by Mallet-Stevens. During the 20th edition of the festival, in total silence facing the jury presided by couturier Azzedine Alaia, a model wearing special effects hidden under a white silk top suddenly blew up in the middle of the runway, like a kamikaze. ONE SECOND materialized the contemporary uncertainty imposed to the west by the globalized war on terror and fashion became a sign of our time.

Inaugurated in 1924, 15 RUE DE LA PAIX is the last remaining heritage store of British luxury house Alfred Dunhill. In 1938, Pablo Picasso acquiers at 15 RUE DE LA PAIX a sterling silver lighter, which he later personalizes with a double profile of Dora Maar and gives it as a present to his muse. In 2003, the Dunhill Museum integrates to its collection Picasso’s lighter and launched 15 RUE DE LA PAIX as the incubator of creativity of Alfred Dunhill. My mission consists in investigating the archives of the brand in order to legitimately perpetuate Alfred’s innovative vision.